Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 23, 2016

In 2015, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that the local ordinances conflicted with state law, which regulated oil and gas production within Ohio. The court held that the state law preempted the local ordinances because they sought to regulate oil and gas production in a similar manner. Beck Energy Corp., As section 1509.02 or 4513.34

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. But after 2009, the trends began to diverge.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

The Bush Administration also saw the emergence of new US strategies after Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to regulate CO2 emissions. And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. That, however, is a story for another day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. EPA decision or EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This contamination led to multiple Dimock residents suffering from impacts to their own personal water supplies, including the explosion of Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well in January 2009. million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Once operational, any company failing to comply with regulations and standards should lose its permits to operate. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In 2009, leaking natural gas lines at the Pivik School forced the school to close temporarily and activities were canceled. “The well is located on elementary school grounds behind the the school next to sports a field. A leak was detected on the well head and immediately fixed by operator personnel on site.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Based on these assurances and promises to “take all steps necessary to abate and remediate” any harms they did cause, Bryan Latkanich signed a gas lease agreement with Chevron on December 7, 2009. The following is the story of Bryan Latkanich and his family, based on a November 15, 2022 interview. Shapiro, Lt.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Industrial wind developers need the transmission line to expand their turbines across the fragile Sand Hills ecosystem; In May of this year, Ohio regulators demanded wildlife protections for endangered migratory bird species, including the Kirtland’s warbler, for an industrial wind project proposed for Lake Erie. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. Accordingly, cap-and-trade schemes provide firms with flexibility to design cost-effective, tailored emissions plans, and the regulator achieves its policy objective by means of the overall emissions cap.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

’s delegation of federal Clean Air Act (CAA) authority for California to adopt regulations limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and mandating the state’s steady transition from sales of conventional cars and light trucks to electric vehicles.

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